Your 140 Characters Of Fame

Last week, host Scott Simon sent out an invitation to Twitter followers to post funny, witty or thoughtful messages on our Web site in 140 characters or less — the maximum length of a Tweet. In just two hours, we received more than 200 responses. We've whittled them down to the 10 best.

Tim Siedell, known as Badbanana on Twitter, made the cut. He joins Scott to share his and go through the others.

Our Favorite 140 Characters

14.9 million people are now unemployed. That's a lot of new blogs. — Badbananas (Tim Seidell)